What a great night for the Spiders.  They played hard with passion the whole game.  They had a little trouble defending Baltimore on two series but other than that they came up big.  They were in the backfield the whole game getting pressue and come up with I think 6 sacks, 1 interception (in the end zone) and a forced fumble.  A great team effort.   BJ threw for well over 300 yards and a couple of TDs and limited his mistakes.   The only bad thing was a couple of personal fouls that were unnecessary. 

It could have been worse for HR Concord was in the red zone took consecutive sacks and then had a field goal blocked and also #17 dropped a would-be TD.

This sets up you know what next week.

Good luck to KP and the Spiders next week in the bell game.

Congrats to Concord.This win should put them in the playoffs.Kannapolis has the SPC title wrapped up,so I look for them to work on some things next week to prepare for the playoffs.This very well could be a great game next week.Just wish the game meant more than just for the bell.I liked the old days when this was a conference title game.Once again congrats to the Spiders this was a big win for them.Good luck to both teams next week.

If Kannapolis uses next week to work on some things, that bell will be coming back to Concord.  Jaydog it is obvious that Tommy has been teaching BJ how to read defenses.  He throws great balls and is very accurate.  Some of those drops I think were due to BJ understanding the defense more than the receivers.  I was impressed with his football intellect.  He was releasing the ball before the receiver was out his break understanding where the defense was going and which receiver would be open.  The rest of the state better start loading up on DB's because this kid can throw the rock.  

All this defense was looking for earlier in the season was for the offense to give them a chance.  They are getting it now and the spiders are looking like a solid team again.   I was standing at the top of the hill as CHS was coming up from the pregame warmups.  They had a different look about them tonite. You have to give credit to coach Padgett and his staff.  They have showed a lot of character and have obviously worked relentlessly to get this team rolling.  I like our position of underdog going into this one!

Again Concord's defense won the game.  Offense looked good, DJ sure got DP through that pile to let him score that long touchdown run, props to the sophmore on the O-Line.  Receivers are definitely making the freshman look good, they have saved him quite a bit.  I know he is young, but if you are gonna step up and play with the big boys, then he has got to learn to scramble and learn to read the whole field, he is still staring down the intended receiver.

Congrats to all the seniors, they are a fine group of young men, hope they get the looks from colleges that they deserve, since the coaches are just looking at the younger guys.

footballx2 wrote:

Again Concord's defense won the game.  Offense looked good, DJ sure got DP through that pile to let him score that long touchdown run, props to the sophmore on the O-Line.  Receivers are definitely making the freshman look good, they have saved him quite a bit.  I know he is young, but if you are gonna step up and play with the big boys, then he has got to learn to scramble and learn to read the whole field, he is still staring down the intended receiver.

 

Congrats to all the seniors, they are a fine group of young men, hope they get the looks from colleges that they deserve, since the coaches are just looking at the younger guys.

 

 

Not really sure where you are coming from Growlmouth... I mean Willigy1.. I mean footballx2.  What older guys could play college football that are not playing for the Spiders? There are 22 starters on the field.  2 on defense are Seniors, 1 on offense.  Of the remaining handful of Seniors on the team, which ones are the coaches refusing to look at?  Wait... I do remember that article where the coaching staff said that they did not want to play ANYONE who was a senior.  I remember that now.  That is why they are playing with all JRs, Sophs, and a Fresh, right?  I do not think the coaching staff left a stone unturned after losing the first six games.     (corrected opening losses)

 Granted, I know that everything is politics around Concord, right?  A new coach, a halfly new staff... They had lots of politics coming into the school only 7 months ago.  There has been lots of time to get politicked up, right?  Maybe you dont understand what that word, "politics", really means?

Lastly, why are you filled with so much jealousy?  Can you not be happy for the kids you claim to coach up every Saturday morning?  Or can you just not be happy for one of them?

yanolin

I don't know who growlmouth or wilegy is, but it isn't me

I have an opinion and I am entitiled to it.  I do support the Spiders, I am out there every Friday night, so unless you know me than get your facts straight.

Let's set the record straight, I am Sean and Jason's dad. I am wilegy1 on here and that is it. Oh, hello to you, preacherman, it was good to meet you. I am not jealous of anything going on around here except that underclassmen are not having to earn and work for their spot. As of now, I could care less about football, because the way things are happening around here it is not the game I have loved for 35 years. I do not care if Sean or Jason ever play the game again, but if they want to then I will do what I can to get them there. Except go to their games, I went to senior night and that was the first and last time this year! I said at the beginning of the season this was gonna be some of the worst football played in this county, and in my opinion it is. I do not think the kids are getting "coached", more like "placed", I do not feel they are "gelling" but rather playing poorly coached opposition.  

I got with Pop Warner to allow kids to play kids from other areas in the state and expand their potential when it comes to playoffs. It worked for about eight years now. Then they create the Cabarrus County conference, which to me is an expanded version of boys club football. I left that group a while back so why would I like it now?

I teach kids the fundamentals about the game of football, and the fundamentals of life skills. For the last several years, I have worked with kids at the high school level and beyond. My only goal is to get kids into college and thinking about their futures. They do not have to play ball and some of the ones I help do not play any sports. What I do works and the kids know this and see this when they go on their visits.

Thing is, I have six kids that I have helped get into college right now through no help of their coaches or schools and I didn't go find them they found me. Four are playing ball and two are not. The paths they have had to take are a direct reflection of how the Cabarrus county education system has done them. They did not get the notariety when they played, or they struggled with grades, or did not have ther proper core classes taken. I straighten that out and got them back on track. This year I am working with four of them and advise an additional three on a regular basis. We will get to college, and no you probably won't read about them, or even hear about them for a year or two, because they have to prove themselves all over again. But they will, I do instill that into them. The ability to persevere in any negative situation.

In closing, I know football and I know kids! I can get more out of most kids than anyone, period. I do it because it is my calling, and I am very good at it. Up until this year I put in 60+ hours of week at work, then put in another 60+ hours a week into youths and football, plus I play the game myself on top of all that. I have tried to walk away from the football end totally and it hasn't happened yet. I stay away from all social venues and anything to do with football but they still come. I stood at the game Friday and had about 20 parents come up to me and tell me how disgusted they are with things, now I haven't spoken to them all year and that would make up almost half of the team. I did not give out any negative info I chose to not comment at all, preacherman you can verify that.

I give up from trying to make a change around here. Just get the ones who want it off to college and work out. 

Man I don't know what you are looking at but that kid is clearly reading the defenses.  More so than any QB Ive seen in a while at CHS.  I agree that he is gonna have some problems getting away from pressure.  I am not sold on his athleticism and his play making ability.  He seems weak in the pocket and I am honestly concerned for his safety at times. 

Now that being said I have rarely seen him have to scramble and his oline seems to be drastically improved from the beginning of the season.  From what I have heard those kids really want to take care of Beecher and have kinda taken it on their shoulders to keep him clean in the pocket.  He also avoids contact by releasing the ball very quickly.  This comes from making pre snap reads and getting rid of the ball.  He is purely a pocket passer right now, but the kid makes great decisions.  I have not seen one receiver bail him out, if anything I have seen the ball going through their hands because they had no idea they were going to be open but Beecher did! 

He has a lot of maturing to do physically but you can't argue with his success.  I assume him to probably be 14 years old which is phenomenol.  You can't underestimate the attitude of this team right now.  They seem to be together.

Personally I enjoy watching # 12 on defense.  That kid is full of energy.  I also like the little Willix kid.  It is obvious he understands the game and is not affraid to stick his head in the their on defense. 

I would imagine there is a good reason the coaches are looking more at the younger guys.

wilegy1 wrote:

Let's set the record straight, I am Sean and Jason's dad. I am wilegy1 on here and that is it.

Hate to break the bad news to you but about a month ago, a guy named Growlmouth said that he was Sean's Dad. I just wrote that off as Wilegy1 forgetting to log off of one screen name before logging in to make a comment but I guess I was wrong. 

I posted a comment on here some time back after the arrival of footballx2.  My post mixed in a little bit of a response to wilegy1 and a little bit towards  footballx2 because I wanted to see if the two could be the same.  Footballx2 responded to all of the statements as if he were both parties.  I guess that if it isn't you, it must be someone in the family.

A lot of coaches read the boards hoping to keep some of their players from posting bulletin board material for other teams.  If that's the case at Concord, Padgett should win coach of the year in the SPC based on the fact that he seems to have expanded the role of Little Willix since you started your nightmarish attacks on the Concord coaches on this board.  I'm not sure that E.Z. or Coach Fleming would have been that accommodating.  Fleming would have probably started coaching from underneath the light pole.

For weeks you have talked about kids playing in the wrong spots but never have you made a suggestion.  You speak of no fundamentals being taught to the kids but how on earth do you know if you don't come to watch your son play?  I watch a lot of football and I see fundamental mistakes made at all levels but I don't blame the coaches for not teaching the players.  When I see an outside linebacker jumping inside of a block on a sweep I usually just laugh to myself, knowing that he's going to catch it from his position coach on film day.  Get a teaching certificate and try coaching high school football some day.  As soon as you do, let Coach Padgett know.  I'm sure he'd love to coach against you if he hasn't retired first.

As a parent, let me give you one piece of advice.  Never publicly put down or seem to pull against your sons' team on a message board.  Some ticked off fan like me could scroll through your posts, pick out several of the one's that seem designed to antagonize your sons' coaches the most, and then forward them to the recruiting coordinators at the schools that seem to be interested.  Remember also that at some point in time that recruiter will be in contact with your sons' head coach.  Coach Padgett is probably too good a man to let the college coach know what he's about to get into for the next four or five years but you should still be careful.  You seem to have good kids.  Don't screw them up.

drybones wrote: Yea, winning is great but I'm not sold on this staff as of yet. Everybody gets all giddy over 4 wins and assumes that things have turned the corner. Don't get me wrong it makes the season more palatable. Let's just hope that around the corner isn't a deadend alley. This staff needs to use every kid that has potential to their fullest and I'm not sure that's happening yet.

If we are allowed to criticize when things are down, then we should be allowed to be giddy when things go well.   Also, if potential is being wasted then you should build a suggestion box and attach it to the press box so fans can drop off their ideas on their way out.  You have to remember that some Ohio State fans are now growing tired of Jim Tressel and want him gone.  I’m not comparing the Concord coaches to that of Ohio State, but trying to explain how fan bases can act sometimes.  We should all be fully behind the Spiders for the bell game, it will be a big challenge.  

Wilegy or footballx2 or drybones or growlmouth or CoachDIH posted something recently that said that somebody ought to be a running back because he's the fastest kid on the team.  Any other suggestions instead of just blind statements of criticism?  Post them here and forget the suggestion box. Let the board debate it. I see it on college boards all the time.  Heck, I still think that the Panthers should put Julius Peppers at tight end or flanker at the goal line and actually throw the ball to him.  Now I've said it.  Maybe a Panther's assistant will inadvertently stumble onto this board and either act on it or laugh it off as the ravings of a fan that doesn't know what he's talking about. At least I've made a legitimate suggestion.

I hate it when somebody puts himself on top of a pedestal where football is concerned and claims to have a gift or secret formula for success but won't share it (actually they are unhappy about something and just want somebody else to wonder or criticize or be unhappy too).  What is really sad is that they have followers that are blind and deaf or dumb or under 14 years old that actually think that the Great Karmac or whatever his next screen name is knows what he's talking about. 

So, Drybones, you can be the first on the list to make a suggestion.  Should the player be on offense or defense or is special teams where this kid can make his mark?  What position should he play? How could the team best utilize him?  For the love of Concord football, put it out there instead of acting like like a jihadist, sneaking into a room and flipping a switch.  If you want to discuss it with me, I'm the bald headed guy under the light pole surrounded by all of the kids but you won't see me there until Senior Night or Homecoming of 2011 because that's when my youngest son will be a senior and I have to stay away from games until then because I'm afraid that 50 or 60 player's parents will complain to me about things because they know that I have all of the answers because I played for the (Concord) Eagles and I'll just have to keep my mouth shut because I have a code that I live by.  Of course, I am moving my kids after this season so I'll have to let you know later which light pole and at which school my son will be attending.  Or is that you?

drybones wrote: Wilegy1 do you ever recommend that a kid goes to football camps even if they aren't getting playing time?

Please excuse me for butting in on this conversation.

I believe that every player should visit a camp but you should carefully consider which camp that your son will be attending based on his position.and the scheme that the college coach uses as compared to his high school coach.  You see, fundamentals are different for each position depending on the college camp that he may be attending.  For example, if your son is playing in a pro style offense in high school, you'll be wasting your money by sending him to Georgia Tech's or West Virginia's camps.  If you did decide, though, to send your child to one of these schools, you won't be disappointed.  Almost all camps will give your son a report card at the end of the camp where they will elaborate on all of the great things that your child accomplished there.  After you spend a bunch of money on sending your child there, they won't tell you that he stinks (not good business).

Check with your son's high school coach.  He may have recommendations because your son's high school coach probably copies a lot of things that he has seen from the college level.  I asked Coach Smith years ago and he listed several camps for my son to choose from.  High School is a copycat system just like colleges and the NFL.  Send him to camp whether he's getting playing time or not.  It's good exposure, he'll be properly supervised, have an opportunity to spend time at a college campus away from home, and he'll have a good time.  My son loved it.  If your son is a backup quarterback and is a freshman at Concord High School, you may want to ask Wilegy1 what he would do because your kid won't get a whole lot of playing time unless B.J. gets hurt.  Wilegy1 will, perhaps, recommend that you move and transfer your child to another school so that he won't be a bench warmer.  If your son then doesn't get playing time, you can always gripe on a high school sports message board.

I hope that this helps.